After returning to Wuyou Palace, William took out a few days to accompany Du Li and her three girls to keep warm, and then started a busy life again. With William's strong support, Frederick's 1790 rifle production capacity was obtained.
It has greatly improved, but even so, it is obviously unrealistic to complete the dressing of all Prussian regular troops within this year. In addition, due to confidentiality, this rifle has not officially entered the army, and it is currently only equipped with the Prussian royal guards
several groups to continue observation.
Not only in rifles, Prussia has made progress, but in artillery, the Brandenburg Military Academy Research Department has also made breakthrough progress. From the appearance of artillery to the present, cannons are generally smooth-bore front-loading guns, firing solid ball bombs.
Some artillery fired spherical bombs, shotguns and slip-on shotguns. In the beginning, the rifled gun was straight rifled, and the main purpose was to facilitate the loading of projectiles in front. However, this kind of artillery has a fatal disadvantage that it is slow firing speed.
Low shooting accuracy and short range.
For this, when the research department of Brandenburg Military Academy presented Frederick 1970, William suggested to those in the research department whether the gradually mature rifle rifle technology can be applied to artillery. In fact, the rifle and
Artillery has many similar characteristics. First of all, both use gunpowder to shoot ammunition out, and artillery can also be regarded as a large-scale rifle.
In modern history in 846, Major G. Cavalli of Italy made a spiral rifled gun, which fired a cone-headed cylinder-shaped bomb. The spiral rifle made the projectile rotate, and the flight stabilized, increasing the power and firing of the artillery.
Accuracy increases the range of the artillery.
Now, the technology of spiral rifling is close to maturity. In this case, the conditions for making artillery with outstanding performance are already in place. Earl William has been reported to the Brandenburg Military Research and Development Department, where researchers have successfully manufactured it.
Several cannons with spiral rifled were found. Now we are just waiting for testing.
This is good news for William. With the development of the times, weapons and equipment have an increasing influence in wars. For example, in later generations, the number of troops is not a problem at all. The biggest factor that determines the victory of the war is
Whether armed equipment can suppress the other party?
Now, although weapons have not yet developed to the point where they are almost perverted in later generations, due to the frequent wars, various weapons are constantly emerging, and among these weapons, the superior performance, naturally, have been different from the monarchs of various countries.
War is always a hotbed for weapon development. Although gunpowder was invented by the Han people and was first used in war, and during the Ming Dynasty, the various gunpowder weapons of the Ming Dynasty did not fall behind with the mainstream of the world, and even in some cases
The field is still far ahead. However, when the Ming Dynasty fell, the Manchu Tatars entered the Central Plains. These Manchus believed that the development of gunpowder would affect their dominance. Therefore, in the next hundred years, the Manchus always banned gunpowder.
In the same era, due to the frequent large-scale wars between European countries, all countries, from kings to people are very keen on the development of new weapons. As the rise and fall of the other, only
It took more than a hundred years. In the late Qing Dynasty, European weapons and equipment had completely left the former Celestial Kingdom behind dozens of streets.
Since the Hohenzollern family was still in the Brandenburg Elector, as the most embarrassing Brandenburg people in Europe, they regarded weapons and equipment as an indispensable part, and it was also the ruling class.
With strong support, Prussia's army equipment has never lagged behind the times, and is even ahead of its pace.
Thinking of this, William suddenly felt that it was necessary to separate the R&D department from the Brandenburg Military Academy. The reason why this R&D department was placed under the management of the Brandenburg Military Academy was that the current weapon manufacturing industry was
Most of them rely on traditional labor, while the Brandenburg Military Academy has concentrated most of the Prussian talents. The R&D department can rely on the advantages of being close to the water tower and first get the month to discover a group of talents to make greater contributions to the Prussian weapons industry.
contribute.
But now, with the launch of Frederick 1790 type and the R&D department making progress in artillery, William is more concerned about the security and confidentiality of the R&D department, although Brandenburg Military Academy
The level of defense is definitely the highest in Prussia, but the students in it are not only Prussians. When William first founded the Brandenburg Military Academy, he had already thought that this military academy would recruit students from the whole world, and it was inevitable that there would be
Other forces sent people to infiltrate.
On this issue, Marshal Saito also asked William for instructions on this issue, and William's approval was treated equally! The purpose of Brandenburg Military Academy is not only an academy for cultivating high-quality and highly skilled military talents for Prussia, but also a
Regarding the research hall of war-related industries, William hopes to discover talents, explore talents, and cultivate talents in this academy. As for what to teach his apprentice to starve his master to death, William is actually not worried. After all, only an open but inclusive academy can truly
Cultivate the elites of the times.
However, after saying so much, there are indeed problems with the confidentiality of the military academy, so William decided to separate the R&D department from the military academy and set up a separate unit. William decided to promote the R&D department to the Prussian Wang Family Weapons Institute. At the same time, the research institute was also
Merged with the Prussian Weapon Development Association, which had been established in Prussia before.
In William's vision, by 1791, Prussia would not include North American military forces, plus the royal guards deployed in Prussia's land, with the reach of 230,000 regular troops, and once the country was mobilized, Prussia would be able to reach half a year
Mobilize 500,000 troops within it.
After annexing Saxony, Bohemia, Denmark and Prussian Poland, there is no need to question the mobilization power in Prussia, but this also requires that Prussian weapons can be fully configured with mobilized so many troops.
In place, this will undoubtedly become the focus of Prussia's next stage of development.
The defensive positions on the periphery of Moscow have been broken by Blankov's rebels, but Rumentsev did not feel much disappointed. On the contrary, in the Moscow's periphery, Rumentsev has achieved his own strategy.
Target, although the Moscow defenders suffered a great loss, the external siege defense also caused Blankov's rebels to suffer severe damage. According to Rumentsev's observation, Blankov's rebels suffered at least more than
Forty thousand people, this has reached Rumentsev's expectations.
Time was successfully dragged to the end of April by Rumentsev, and it was not far from the reinforcements promised by Paul.
As mentioned earlier, in Petrozavodsk, the Romanov royal family has always hidden its own power, which is the nearly 20,000 troops hidden by Tsar Mikhail and Peter the Great.
Previously, when Rumentsev was sent to preside over Moscow's defense, Paul I had signed a conscript to hand it over to his confidant to go to Petrozavodsk.
After Paul I's confidant arrived in Petrozavodsk, he immediately met Governor Petrozavodsk. After presenting Paul I's edict, the Governor's face changed drastically. You should know that from Mikhail
The tsar established the Romanov dynasty and the governor of the Petrozavodsk region has always been inherited by the confidants of Tsar Mikhail for generations. Under such circumstances, the 73-year-old governor of the Minkrant
Of course he was clear about the particularity of the region and his responsibilities, but he didn't expect that when he thought he would never receive this special edict in his life, the edict really came to his hands.
superior.
Minkrant, whose face changed drastically, did not even wait for the Tsar's envoy to say more, so he hurriedly sent people to Petrozavodsk to summon clan leaders from all over the country. Although after a hundred years of inheritance, these clans did not know their own.
Why did the ancestors willingly leave the bustling metropolis and come to this remote place? Some people even complained. But these leaders knew the responsibilities they had.
Although these leaders usually look like small landlords in the countryside, their loyalty to the royal family has long been deeply engraved into their bloodlines.
After receiving the order from Minkrant, the clan leaders from all over the country immediately rushed to the capital of Petrozavodsk. In just two days, the descendants of those former royal guard officers gathered at Minkrant's residence.
Among them, hundreds of clan spokespersons there repeated the oaths made by their ancestors to the Romanov dynasty in the witness of Minkrant.
Among these people are old and young, but in the process of taking the oath, these people, no matter their age, showed a hint of fanaticism on their faces. You should know that in Petrozavodsk, every family of these people in their family
When an heir was born, his family elders would swear allegiance to the Romanov dynasty on their behalf. In his later growth, he would be rude to say that these children were strictly trained by an officer of the Russian Empire.
.
After taking the oath, these people began to report the troops that each family could dispatch under the auspices of Minkrant. With the changes of the times, the older guards of that year had died, and their obligations were passed.
The bloodline is passed down to future generations.
Soon, in Minkrant's mansion, an army of more than 20,000 people was raised. This army can complete preparations in as soon as one week. Don't forget that there is one in Petrozavodsk.
The existence of a large gun factory can also be seen as Peter the Great's preparations for future generations back then.